High mileage cars < Low mileage cars

well that's suprised me. I expected you to all be like 40. Umm I drove my mums 24valver a few times and allthough it was ok in a straight line the brakes totally sucked and handled like a boat.
 
I would disagree about the handling, its obviously no Elise, but for a car of its size and type it doesnt handle too badly at all IMO.
 
Bradley8988 said:
well that's suprised me. I expected you to all be like 40. Umm I drove my mums 24valver a few times and allthough it was ok in a straight line the brakes totally sucked and handled like a boat.
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Handled like a boat? The Mondeo happens to be the finest handling car in its class.
 
More mondeo love here. Bought a 1.8 to run about in at 23, even convinced the old fella to get an st24. That handled well for the size. To the op, let him buy the 205, should be ok, just it'll feel a bit...rubbish.
 
mondeos handle like a boat if they're on old shocks with worn wishbones and shagged bushes.....I wish someone would tell my car that it can't handle it seems to enjoy it :p Suppose mine is cheating with koni adjustable suspension though.

Also the brakes are a bit pants but it costs all of £50 to upgrade it to st220 brakes :)


The 2l mondeo is a legend in that it'll take as much abuse as you can throw at it, never skip a beat, and even just changing the bushes etc for pattern parts when they wear out itll still outhandle every car in its class.

EDIT btw i got my 2l mondeo when i was 17, and my 2.5l v6 ghia x @ 18....and i've driven a fair few cars, and the mondeo definitely can hold its own against other fwd cars.
 
LeperousDust said:
I haven't asked any further, i did see the advert but instantly said its probably not a great idea, i *think* it was a 1.8 diesel (definately a diesel i'm just unsure on engine size) which just means this gets better and better :cool:

Tbh the car would be alright for a first car, but it won't be his first he just has driven in a year or two cause of uni costs...
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Well on the plus side, 205 diesels last for serious mileage with little attention...one of my brothers is a muppet when it comes to cars, and took one to 300k, then got bored...the car was quite happy to keep going too. :)

If he can afford a newer car, force him to get one. 205s aren't all that safe (if that concerns him), and they are noisy, diesels very much so.

I'd still be tempted to take it over a mondeo...but that's 'cause I don't like mondeos. :p

InvG
 
Alex UK said:
Handled like a boat? The Mondeo happens to be the finest handling car in its class.
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I've been in dingys that handled better than my old Mondeo. It was a horrible, understeering, soggy, wobbly dullmobile. Sure if you drive everywhere at 30mph it'll probably manage the occasional corner but at any sort of speed or on anything remotely twisty is was horrible, I hated it.
 
MrMatteh said:
didn't yours.... die?

is a mondeo in the same class as a 3-series... is it really ranked higher in the handling department?
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mine died because i ragged the **** out of it and didnt change the cambelt....and even then it took 30k VERY HARD miles over the reccomended cambelt change to die from a snapped cambelt.....most cars if you go 5k over with hard driving it'll go pop.

And no, the 3 class is the class above the mondeo....the new mondeo might be being compared to the 3 class, but the mk2 mondeo was definitely not anywhere near.

Tom.
 
eidolon said:
I've been in dingys that handled better than my old Mondeo. It was a horrible, understeering, soggy, wobbly dullmobile. Sure if you drive everywhere at 30mph it'll probably manage the occasional corner but at any sort of speed or on anything remotely twisty is was horrible, I hated it.
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as i've said before, yours sounded like a nail. Did you change the shocks/springs bushes and wishbones or were they still running on the ones it came out of the factory with?
 
MrMatteh said:
do you really think manufacturers would leave such a tight margin for cambelt changing times?

and what class is a mondeo/3 series? :confused:
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I've heard of a few cars that with hard driving have had cambelts go a few k BEFORE they're meant to, doing thirty thousand miles over a cambelt's expected life (which is 72k iirc, in which case it did 40k miles) living at 6k + rpm is still bloody going.....can hardly blame the car for dying because the most important maintenance part of the engine wasnt changed

mondeo is classed as a generic family car, the 3 series is classed as an executive car.
 
didn't someone on here buy a 406 and the cambelt snapped a few thousand miles over pugs recommended time
 
rG-tom said:
I've heard of a few cars that with hard driving have had cambelts go a few k BEFORE they're meant to, doing thirty thousand miles over a cambelt's expected life (which is 72k iirc, in which case it did 40k miles) living at 6k + rpm is still bloody going.....can hardly blame the car for dying because the most important maintenance part of the engine wasnt changed

mondeo is classed as a generic family car, the 3 series is classed as an executive car.
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IMO the new 3 series doesn't belong anywhere near the "executive" class bracket.
 
its lasted 13 years cos it's had very little use...

a lot of mk1/mk2 mondeos are shabby because they get used and abused by families wanting a cheap run around.
 
DannyW said:
its lasted 13 years cos it's had very little use...

a lot of mk1/mk2 mondeos are shabby because they get used and abused by families wanting a cheap run around.
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There will be lots of mk1 mk2 mondeos that have not seen a lot of use either.

I see more 205's on the road than mk1 mundanos.
They have not lasted well.

Like my Cheap ass ZX, 1.9 non turbo, 1997 registered 81k on the clock and because it hasnt gone round the world 3 times acording to the logic being put forward here, should be avoided as it is going to........... well what is it going to do anytime soon?
 
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